Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 82 80
Rank change year-on-year -10 -2 -24
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,080 1,775 2,390
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.93% 3.56% 2.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 3.99% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,443 855 1,586
10th Percentile £45,456 £49,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.33%
75th Percentile £93,634 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £107,500 £112,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £68,525 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.50% +5.42% -2.99%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78,861 44,450 67,204
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.27% 89.12% 80.81%
Number of salaries quoted 54,468 25,168 42,663
10th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 21 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -15 1,809 £75,000 +3.45% 434
UK excluding London -26 1,136 £67,500 -1.50% 335
Work from Home -17 871 £67,500 -3.57% 277
London -20 800 £85,000 +6.25% 175
North of England -37 372 £70,000 - 102
South East +34 326 £65,000 -7.14% 92
North West -54 198 £75,000 +11.11% 47
South West -10 129 £60,000 - 61
Midlands -53 107 £67,500 -3.57% 41
North East +20 98 £65,000 +18.18% 27
West Midlands -37 77 £80,000 +14.29% 25
Yorkshire -4 76 £69,305 -0.99% 28
Northern Ireland -21 67 £60,000 +33.33% 6
Wales -12 61 £65,000 +25.00% 8
East of England -29 42 £60,100 -3.84% 14
Scotland -49 34 £60,000 -22.58% 16
East Midlands -47 30 £64,000 -5.19% 15
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 43 (2.07%) Confluence
2 30 (1.44%) Apache Spark
3 18 (0.87%) Apache
4 17 (0.82%) CMS
5 14 (0.67%) IIS
6 13 (0.63%) Camunda
7 9 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.38%) JBoss
8 8 (0.38%) OpenStack
9 7 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.34%) nginx
9 7 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 7 (0.34%) WordPress
10 5 (0.24%) Drupal
11 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.19%) Umbraco
12 3 (0.14%) DNN
12 3 (0.14%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.14%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.14%) Kentico
Applications
1 11 (0.53%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.14%) PlantUML
4 2 (0.096%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 8 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.29%) Oracle Retail
4 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.14%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.096%) Shopify
7 1 (0.048%) Eikon
7 1 (0.048%) RMDS
7 1 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1,057 (50.82%) AWS
2 881 (42.36%) Azure
3 328 (15.77%) GCP
4 266 (12.79%) Serverless
5 260 (12.50%) GitHub
6 197 (9.47%) SaaS
7 185 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
8 147 (7.07%) AWS Lambda
9 124 (5.96%) Amazon S3
10 112 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
11 111 (5.34%) AWS CloudFormation
12 106 (5.10%) GitHub Copilot
13 98 (4.71%) Azure Service Bus
14 85 (4.09%) Amazon ECS
15 74 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
16 69 (3.32%) Amazon SQS
17 67 (3.22%) Amazon EC2
18 64 (3.08%) Azure AKS
19 51 (2.45%) PaaS
20 50 (2.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.21%) Broadband
2 22 (1.06%) Network Security
3 13 (0.63%) DMARC
3 13 (0.63%) DNS
3 13 (0.63%) MQTT
4 9 (0.43%) HTTP
5 8 (0.38%) AMQP
5 8 (0.38%) Internet
5 8 (0.38%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.38%) VPN
6 7 (0.34%) Hyperconnected
7 6 (0.29%) Firewall
7 6 (0.29%) RFID
8 4 (0.19%) DHCP
9 3 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (0.14%) LTE
9 3 (0.14%) Modbus
9 3 (0.14%) NAS
9 3 (0.14%) SAN
10 2 (0.096%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 309 (14.86%) MongoDB
2 231 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 200 (9.62%) NoSQL
4 168 (8.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 160 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
6 125 (6.01%) SQL Server
7 117 (5.63%) MySQL
8 97 (4.66%) Relational Database
9 71 (3.41%) Redis
10 58 (2.79%) DynamoDB
11 50 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
12 30 (1.44%) Big Data
13 17 (0.82%) Data Lake
14 16 (0.77%) RDBMS
15 15 (0.72%) Pinecone
16 13 (0.63%) BigQuery
17 12 (0.58%) Db2
17 12 (0.58%) DTS
18 10 (0.48%) Geospatial Data
19 8 (0.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 278 (13.37%) Git
2 186 (8.94%) GitLab
3 169 (8.13%) Jenkins
4 64 (3.08%) JUnit
5 63 (3.03%) JIRA
6 54 (2.60%) TeamCity
7 49 (2.36%) Cucumber
8 40 (1.92%) Cypress.io
9 39 (1.88%) Mockito
10 34 (1.63%) Claude Code
11 31 (1.49%) Maven
12 26 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 25 (1.20%) Selenium
14 18 (0.87%) SonarQube
15 15 (0.72%) Postman
15 15 (0.72%) Spock
16 14 (0.67%) CircleCI
16 14 (0.67%) JMeter
16 14 (0.67%) REST Assured
17 12 (0.58%) Vite
General
1 527 (25.34%) Finance
2 415 (19.95%) Social Skills
3 218 (10.48%) Public Sector
4 188 (9.04%) Banking
5 157 (7.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 151 (7.26%) Law
7 141 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
8 116 (5.58%) Retail
9 85 (4.09%) Legal
10 66 (3.17%) Financial Institution
11 65 (3.13%) Marketing
12 48 (2.31%) Back Office
13 37 (1.78%) Aerospace
14 30 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
15 28 (1.35%) Games
15 28 (1.35%) Legal Technology
16 19 (0.91%) Advertising
17 18 (0.87%) Front Office
18 15 (0.72%) Manufacturing
19 12 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 775 (37.26%) Developer
2 495 (23.80%) Senior
3 375 (18.03%) Software Engineer
4 350 (16.83%) Lead
5 302 (14.52%) Architect
6 205 (9.86%) .NET Developer
7 184 (8.85%) Senior Developer
8 168 (8.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 156 (7.50%) Java Developer
10 129 (6.20%) Java Engineer
11 125 (6.01%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 123 (5.91%) Senior Software Engineer
13 108 (5.19%) Solutions Architect
14 103 (4.95%) Principal Engineer
15 86 (4.13%) Software Developer
16 79 (3.80%) Lead Software Engineer
17 74 (3.56%) DevOps Engineer
18 73 (3.51%) Lead Developer
19 58 (2.79%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
20 57 (2.74%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 560 (26.92%) .NET
2 447 (21.49%) React
3 432 (20.77%) Node.js
4 371 (17.84%) Terraform
5 353 (16.97%) Spring
6 320 (15.38%) Spring Boot
7 310 (14.90%) RESTful
8 288 (13.85%) REST
9 267 (12.84%) Kafka
10 248 (11.92%) ASP.NET
11 230 (11.06%) .NET Core
12 220 (10.58%) AngularJS
13 216 (10.38%) Vue
14 199 (9.57%) ASP.NET Core
15 121 (5.82%) Blazor
16 105 (5.05%) ASP.NET Web API
17 97 (4.66%) .NET Framework
18 95 (4.57%) HTML
19 93 (4.47%) CSS
20 85 (4.09%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 647 (31.11%) Cloud Native
2 372 (17.88%) Distributed Systems
3 145 (6.97%) Product Ownership
4 111 (5.34%) Enterprise Software
5 109 (5.24%) Legacy Systems
6 75 (3.61%) Onboarding
7 52 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
8 51 (2.45%) AI Agents
9 47 (2.26%) Public Cloud
10 43 (2.07%) Virtual Team
11 37 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
12 35 (1.68%) e-Learning
13 31 (1.49%) Video\Live Streaming
14 27 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
14 27 (1.30%) Over-the-Top Content
15 24 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
16 23 (1.11%) Management Information System
17 21 (1.01%) Algorithms
17 21 (1.01%) Data Structures
18 20 (0.96%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 138 (6.63%) Linux
2 49 (2.36%) Windows
3 26 (1.25%) CentOS
3 26 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 21 (1.01%) Unix
5 8 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.38%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.29%) AIX
6 6 (0.29%) Android
7 5 (0.24%) Debian
7 5 (0.24%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.096%) VMS
9 1 (0.048%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,105 (53.13%) CI/CD
2 985 (47.36%) Agile
3 740 (35.58%) Software Engineering
4 733 (35.24%) DevOps
5 579 (27.84%) Full-Stack Development
6 510 (24.52%) Mentoring
7 460 (22.12%) Event-Driven
8 445 (21.39%) AI
9 424 (20.38%) Containerisation
10 417 (20.05%) Test Automation
11 415 (19.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 415 (19.95%) Infrastructure as Code
12 379 (18.22%) Problem-Solving
13 299 (14.38%) Technical Leadership
14 288 (13.85%) Scrum
15 287 (13.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 245 (11.78%) TDD
17 233 (11.20%) Architectural Patterns
18 232 (11.15%) Clean Code
19 226 (10.87%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 702 (33.75%) Java
2 585 (28.13%) C#
3 505 (24.28%) SQL
4 478 (22.98%) Python
5 462 (22.21%) JavaScript
6 390 (18.75%) TypeScript
7 107 (5.14%) Go
8 58 (2.79%) Ruby
9 46 (2.21%) C++
10 40 (1.92%) Bash
11 38 (1.83%) PHP
12 37 (1.78%) Scala
13 28 (1.35%) PowerShell
14 26 (1.25%) Bicep
15 24 (1.15%) Rust
16 23 (1.11%) Kotlin
17 20 (0.96%) PL/SQL
18 19 (0.91%) C
19 13 (0.63%) Groovy
20 12 (0.58%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 303 (14.57%) Security Cleared
2 204 (9.81%) SC Cleared
3 179 (8.61%) Degree
4 90 (4.33%) DV Cleared
5 80 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 71 (3.41%) AWS Certification
7 47 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 30 (1.44%) Azure Certification
8 30 (1.44%) CISSP
9 18 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (0.87%) CISM
9 18 (0.87%) Master's Degree
10 14 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
11 10 (0.48%) MBA
11 10 (0.48%) PhD
12 7 (0.34%) DBS Check
13 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.24%) AWS Certified Developer
14 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
15 4 (0.19%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 221 (10.63%) QA
2 91 (4.38%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.78%) WCAG
4 36 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (1.59%) GDPR
6 17 (0.82%) NCSC
6 17 (0.82%) NIST
7 14 (0.67%) SOC 2
8 13 (0.63%) Data Quality
8 13 (0.63%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (0.43%) GRC
10 9 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
14 5 (0.24%) PSD2
15 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 4 (0.19%) ISO 20022
16 3 (0.14%) SEPA
System Software
1 594 (28.56%) Docker
2 36 (1.73%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.24%) NDS
4 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.19%) Firmware
5 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.14%) KVM
7 1 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 624 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 112 (5.38%) Ansible
3 95 (4.57%) Grafana
4 53 (2.55%) Prometheus
5 27 (1.30%) Argo
6 26 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (0.91%) Puppet
8 15 (0.72%) Kibana
9 9 (0.43%) Cilium
10 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.24%) Podman
12 4 (0.19%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.19%) Packer
13 3 (0.14%) Kubeflow
14 2 (0.096%) MIIS
14 2 (0.096%) Rancher
15 1 (0.048%) Cisco CUCM
15 1 (0.048%) Consul
15 1 (0.048%) logstash
15 1 (0.048%) Nagios
Vendors
1 332 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 97 (4.66%) Google
3 72 (3.46%) Oracle
4 41 (1.97%) OpenAI
5 39 (1.88%) Splunk
6 29 (1.39%) Dynatrace
7 27 (1.30%) Typelevel
8 23 (1.11%) AppDynamics
8 23 (1.11%) Databricks
8 23 (1.11%) IBM
8 23 (1.11%) Okta
9 21 (1.01%) ForgeRock
10 17 (0.82%) OneLogin
11 15 (0.72%) SAP
12 13 (0.63%) Adobe
12 13 (0.63%) Salesforce
12 13 (0.63%) SendGrid
13 12 (0.58%) ServiceNow
14 10 (0.48%) Red Hat
15 8 (0.38%) OpenText